Friday, 26th October by dex & NahkahiiR
Silence? What is it? - 18:18
Friday, 19th October by NahkahiiR
We are lazy bums - 22:35
Yes, finally! The winners of this contest were Dmitry Dementjev and David Hocking. Go view the current standings of the Third SDA Championships ladder. It may look like Dmitry is running for the victory but I guarantee, it wasn't the last contest in this Championship!
Monday, 17th September by NahkahiiR
Championship 3 contest 6 - 20:13
A NEW CONTEST
The sixth round in this championship will be fought on "Different Reality" by Damian Kulot. Easy Run and Easy 100% are being contested and demos should be in our inbox no later than Midnight CET, Monday October 1st 2007.
What are you still waiting for? Go record demos! ;-)
Friday, 17th August by dex
A prisoner of conscience - 20:14
*ONE DAY BEFORE*
Eh, I wonder what weather is it today. Why do they still keep me in this cell? I mean, I didn't have any visions for so long, and my paranoia isn't a problem anymore, either...ah well. I've heard them talking that doc Nikolay wants to release me. A good man, he is. Maybe I'll be free today or tomorrow. Oh well, seems like my food and medicine arrived, time to eat. Mashed potatoes? I HATE mashed potatoes. I've already told it to them numerous times and they just keep making it more and more often. Maybe they do it on purpose...nah, why would they? Impossible. It sounds plausible. No! Damnit, medicine time. It looks weird. Different from other days. Why do they keep me locked here and give me medicine? They said I'm better. They should release me. Maybe they give me bad drugs on purpose? To make me mad? No. It's not possible. They're supposed to help me. Or are they? They must be one of THEM! ARGH, STOP IT! That's just paranoia I have...or maybe THEY want me to think it's paranoia? RELEASE ME YOU BASTARDS!
Argh! My head, it hurts! The world, it's starting to whirl...like a whirlpool, it draws me inside...and I'm there again. What was the name of this land? THEIR land? di...Digs. That was it. Are THEY still here? It seems deserted. Maybe the nightmare won't come again. What is that figure in there? Could it be one of the fresh minions of THEIRS? No, it's not possible. THEY are back! Laurent Mertens... I still remember him from this realm back before the treatment. Wha... DON"T COME CLOSER! Where are you taking me? d1. The monsters, they are here. He's killing them! Whoa, that was EASY. And fast. All dead in 0:55. I've seen a different of THEM - David Spickermann - do it 2 seconds slower. ARgh, where now, you FREAK? No, not d2! I've seen too much of it already! The Nightmare... my head, it fells like 100% of my brain is filled with Nightmare. 1:51 and it's all over. I haven't felt this yet (tablefiller). Whirlpool again, no! Or yes! What's wrong with me? It's just a vision, hallucination, SNAP OUT OF IT, try to rememb... d6. I have to RUN, get away. *1:04 later* Phew that was EASY, even though I haven't yet seen it done (tablefiller).
Back to the cell. The doors are still locked - I want to get out! THEY are here, around trying to watch my every move, I'm TRAPPed TraPped... there's a WAY OUT I KNOW it! Why won't Nikolay release me. He's WiTH THEM, he must be. It starts again, aaaahh!
That's him...one of my most frequent sights in this realm. Jaakko Alakopsa, that was the name. I'm safe in this place. In my cell, THEY watch my every step. I have to escape out of there. Or here? No, there. I'm not there now. Did I escape? Or am I merely dreaming? Will I be thrown away to the cell yet again?
No, he started doing something. Is that... d1 again? Yes, I remember it clearly. Monsters are here again. He's doing the same thing the one earlier...Laurent...did. 0:48 and they're all dead, faster by 7 seconds. Where are we going now? What? Oh, he's still staying here. More, harder monsters. But he kills them all again. When will the Nightmares end? Took him mere 1:13 to take them down. 14 seconds faster than Laurent before my 'treatment'. What, why does he restart it again? 1:07 this time. 6 seconds less. Okay, seems like we're travelling again. d4. Well, that was a fast and Easy Run. Took only 0:31 - 1 second faster than David Spickermann - to get to the next place. d7 - there's an exit out of the realm here! Quick, Run to it Jaakko. 0:54, Easy one. I remember Laurent managing this in 1:04. What? It didn't let me go away. Jaakko seems to be keeping me here, in this Nightmare. RUN! 1:03, 8 seconds faster than himself. Phew, he let me out.
Out of the nightmare realm, back to the cell. They must keep me under surveillance...they probably noticed I was out of this cell, why don't they come here? When they do, I have to take the chance. I'm going to Take THEm DOwn, I'm going to MAKE THEM PAY! Oh damn, another whirlpool!
This is not possible. I thought he disappeared long ago, but he keeps coming back to digs! Thomas Bergendorff, I think he's gonna show me how to kill enemies, *all of them*. And all of the places will seem EASY, I know it, I somehow do! d1. 0:44. He killed them all, 4 seconds faster than Jaakko. Then a sharp d2. 1:11, faster than Dmitry Dementjev by 2 seconds. 'Kill' - it's such a friendly word. Now, d6. 2:11, 9 seconds better than Jaakko. I have to watch his technique if I want to get out of my prison. ds - hey, I did this long ago! But he shows me a better technique...1:30, 2 seconds faster. I can learn from him, that's for sure. Finally, d7. I think I have learned enough, and he seems to agree - he let me go after finishing d7 in 1:58. Jaakko did it 11 seconds slower. I think.
Back to the cell. Come here, just come here you BASTARDS! I'm gonna rip your heads CleAN OFF! AARRGH!!
"-What the fuck is this idiot doing? He's been screaming like that for a while already!
-He must have forgotten his drugs. Wait a moment while I get two prods from the storage.
-Alright, but do it on the double! I've got a bad feeling about this."
They're close...my escape. I think the visions from Digs realm are giving me last tips. Who is this one? He seems like one of the older ones. Must be really smart. Richard Skidmore, I presume. To end this Nightmare, I'll have to take them all down. He's showing me how to do it on d2. 1 minute 45 second later I know exactly what to do, and the way Richard showed me is 6 seconds faster than Laurent's. But what do I do after I escape the prison? Wait, who are those two? Laurent Mertens and Jaakko Alakopsa again. They are showing me, on d3, that I have to Run like two people at once! Easy! 0:26 and I should be out of the asylum (single player time 0:32).
"-I've got the prods. Open the door!"
They're here, they're here! Death is coming! Get away! Get away, I'm gonna hurt you, I'm gonna hurt you!
"-Shit, what a massacre. It's a miracle he only killed Nikolay.
-We don't have an idea where he is, but I think we're going to find him when the disease attacks again.
-True. A mad paranoid schizophreniac with insomnia shouldn't be too hard to find. Unless the disease stops, of course.
-What shall we do, doctor?
-Commence a search, inform police, border patrols. We can't let him go away.
-Okay. I'll keep you informed. Good bye.
-Good bye."
Tuesday, 24th July by NahkahiiR
Save the princess! - 15:30
It is a beautiful sunny day in the kingdom of Digs. People are living happily because of the good king they have. The king's name is Hulippa. Soon after midday, Hulippa receives bad news. One of his army generals has kidnapped his precious princess who has been kept hidden from the people. Hulippa gathers all his bravest warriors to get the princess back. He also tells them: "You can marry my daughter if you find her."
The first part of the quest is d1 which isn't heavily guarded so only one warrior is needed to be sent there. Laurent Mertens kills everything in this Nightmare 100% in 1:27 (tablefiller). It is done, the army can move on to the next battleground.
The second fortress - d2 - has been a pain for many who have attempted to conquer it. Laurent quickly recovered from his wounds and fought his way through a Nighmare Run in 0:32 (tablefiller). He was very close to death but survived.
The third castle on the way is d3 where I stopped Laurent because he has to heal his wounds a little longer. A Nightmare 100% through this place took only 2:44 (beating Richard Skidmore by 50 seconds), but where did it take us?
A secret place called ds! Even Hulippa didn't know about this! Luckily there is one who knows. Karol Urbanski appeared out of nowhere and rushed through the level with a great knowledge. His first Easy Run was 0:44 (beating me by 3 seconds). Then he thought he shouldn't have left anything alive so he ran it again on the same skill, doing a 100% in 1:34 (tablefiller).
What the hell? Monsters keep coming again! Frustrated from the earlier attempt he knew he had forgotten something. Karol then went and beat the earlier time by 2 seconds to get a nice 1:32. Ok... this really is a weird place. The enemy has a lot of reinforcements here. And even worse ones this time. dex went on a Nightmarish Run through the place again, finishing in 0:43. Then he got lazy and said: "I don't want that princess, this is too annoying" and went back to the forests where he came from.
The place was still full of ugly monsters so I had to do a Nightmare 100% to kill them all in 2:18 (tablefiller).
The enemy had focused its attention on ds so we passed d4 without a fight.
Next place where we have to fight again is d5. Laurent has come to his senses and did the Easy Run in 0:31 (tablefiller). Michael Hudson thought there were some flaws in that run so he improved it by 3 seconds to get a slightly quicker 0:28. I thought it still wasn't enough so the time had to fall by 5 seconds to 0:23. Laurent also killed everything and found all secrets on the Nightmare skill and got 3:31. Some monsters gathered again and I had to beat Laurent's time by 1 minute and 3 seconds in 2:28.
The journey is close to the end but surprisingly d6 has been left without any guards! Strange!
There it is, the last fortress of d7! Who has the guts to go rescue the princess from the evil general? Laurent steps forward from the line and wants to give it a go. First he does an Easy run in 1:16 (tablefiller) but he couldn't find the princess. Maybe he did something wrong. He won't stop though and gives it another go, this time with a better route and 12 seconds faster to get a 1:04.
The evil general escaped, seeing that the King's forces were far stronger than his own. Laurent is now in the room with the princess and sees her face. "Oh NO! I have never seen a girl as ugly as she is. I must run away!", he screams. The wishes of Laurent's desperate words were heard by Damian Kulot who had followed him to see the princess too. The ugly princess had taken Laurent in her fangs and to prevent the same happening for Damian himself as well, he ran away, taking it Easy as killing 100% of the remaining forces in the depths of the mansion in 1:48 (beating Aleksander Osipov by 19 seconds). God save Laurent from the ugly princess. Now the troops understand why King Hulippa kept her hidden in his castle.
Tuesday, 17th July by NahkahiiR
Contest RESULTZ!!! - 18:17
Sunday, 15th July by dex
It's us who should be lazy, not you - 00:04
Normally whenever we add new maps to the archives, there's a boom of the incoming demos and while one update gets uploaded to the site, the writing of the next one is already starting, and the density of demos in inbox reaches critical levels. This wasn't the case this time though - all of you were so lazy in doing demos on the new maps that most of this update is made from demos submitted by 'the lazy SDA staff'. So get to work, slackers :). Hopefully the absence of demos is because of you running the contest...hopefully.
But before we get into the new maps demos, time for two records on maps added to SDA already some time ago. Laurent Mertens is still active, you all should follow his example. He still kills all of the hideous monsters on coagula - this time however, he went ahead and set the skill variable at '3'. This 2:25 Nightmare 100% is a 14 seconds improvement over Richard Skidmore's old effort, very deserved in my opinion. I hope Laurent will keep up the steady flow of demos :). Besides that, we also received a digs03 improvement from the supposedly retired Thomas Bergendorff. He improved the Easy Run by Jaakko Alakopsa, by 3 seconds. Time achieved: 0:58. That's not all from him though!
He also pulled of a little magic on some of the digs01 episode maps. All of them are Easy 100%s, and all of them have his distinctive, refined style. In order of the bsp name: d3 in 1:08 (tablefiller), d4 in 1:02 (12 seconds faster than David Spickermann) and d5 in 1:17 (24 seconds faster than David). Nice demos, so go watch them!
Now some cool stuff from the old 'Mr. Long Records', Richard Skidmore! He made a bunch of tablefillers. Keeping up with his long and hard records style, most of them are Nightmare 100%s on maps that don't have explosive weapons. d3 gets a treatment in 3:34. d4 is finished in 2:32, d6 gets blown to oblivion in 3:42 and d7 is blasted through in 4:44. If you watch them you'll most likely be amazed by monster manipulation that is utilized to compensate for the lack of fancy explosive weapons. Damn impressive! He didn't close himself in the NH category though - he also did a Nightmare Run of d7, finishing in mere 1:22, and an Easy 100% on the same map, this time finishing in 2:39. Good work! Keep it up :)
Jaakko Alakopsa had a major role in this update, although entirely different from the last one. The last time he wrote the update; this time he makes an awful lot of demos. Sneaky bastard started with beating three of the fresh demos by Morfy - Nightmare Run of d7 got beaten by 11 seconds to achieve 1:11. The Easy 100% was broken by 30 whole seconds, meaning 2:09 is the record. Possibly scared of facing the Nightmare 100% on this map, he changed it to d4 and recorded a Nightmare 100% there - 35 seconds faster than Richard this time, exiting in 1:57. The rest of his production for this update is a mass of tablefillers: d5 Nightmare Run in 0:29 and d6 Easy 100% in 2:20. Those demos are cool. He also recorded an awfully, terribly bad ds Easy run in 0:47. One big bastard he is :).
And finally, the only two demos on new maps done not by SDA staff members. Tom Nguyen tried his luck in the Nightmare Run on d1 - and it let him improve the earlier record by David Spickermann by no more and no less than 2 seconds - 0:10 is the new time. He has also beaten another of Dave's demos - the Easy Run of d3 got beaten by 4 seconds, achieving this 0:32.
Yes, that's about it. We still look for recammers for the Quake Done 100% Quickest project - check the demos up, recam a few and send the demos up to us. And don't be worried if the updates to that page are scarce, I'm leaving for holiday so I will be left without internet...but after I'm back I'll be sure to update immediately.
Saturday, 7th July by NahkahiiR
No prose - 04:20
Map names didn't fit into my plans so you'll see a boring normal update. Or how can it be normal when there are no demos from me or the Team Florida... :)
Most of the runs this time were episode demos, recorded on an old pack and a new one. Let's start with oldiest first. Flavio Quadros got bored and asked what 100% demos he should record. I pointed out that jzblue needed some new marathon demos. That boy went and recorded an Easy 100% in time of 1:10, beating Mathias 'I get lost on 100m.bsp' Thore by 8 seconds. The history repeats itself - as Flavio was recording the NH marathon, he got a faster time on the first map than the current record was. The same has happened to many others, like me, Marlo, and... well, anyway the new time is 0:34, 1 second faster than Robert Axelsson.
Now to the newer episode that was added recently: digs01. David Spickermann has been active on this front, unlike any other runner - He recorded 9 tablefillers! None of them are optimal though. David managed to record his first single player marathon, an Easy skill Run through all of digs01, with a 3:40 - new to the tables. The rest of LLCoolDave's massive tablefilling production in bullet style:
That was all about custom episodes. The last 7 demos were recorded on custom maps, 5 of them on maps that I hate. Make a wrong move and fall into the damn void and die. The first dude to roam on the hellish levels is Justin Fleck who beat Basil de Vries' chain3 Easy 100% and Nightmare 100% records in 1:37 and 2:32 with improvements of 6 and 43 seconds, respectively.Laurent Mertens has become very active in the last few weeks and we aren't telling him to stop although he chose coagula as his current battle ground. Ignoring calls of the void, he beat Nolan Pflug's Easy 100% in 1:17, 4 seconds faster. He included some egg demos that give me an impression that he doesn't love fiends. Egg6 was the best one imho. :)
The last two demos are from an oldie, Ingmar Poerner! His latest work of art is filled with very beautiful grenadejumps in sm51_czg. He recorded both Easy Run and Nightmare Run demos in 16 seconds, 1 and 2 seconds faster than Tom Nguyen.
That was all about demos in this update. Remember to run the contest map. You still have plenty of time, 212.666 hours to be accurate.
Monday, 2nd July by dex
The laziness must go on - 18:38
Let's start with the thing we forgot in the last update. Namely: how to name the demos. For demos on individual maps, name them d#_xxx, where # is the number of the map. The marathon demos should be named dig1_xxx. Also, we ain't accepting demos on d2 EH and ER until the contest ends. That's enough for repairing what the last update fucked up.
Now, to the core of the update: demos. Let's start with episode demos, which we got in great quantity. We've got our first marathon on digs01 done by Richard Skidmore. The time for this Nightmare 100% is 18:19, a tablefiller. If you need to see where are the secrets placed, search no more. Plus, it's a demo by Morfans, which equals a lot of entertainment :).
Besides that, we used the demo from Digs01 Done Staff, to be specific, the first demo - d1 Easy Run in 0:09, made by Thomas Bergendorff, which is a pretty damn slick demo.
Outside of the new maps, we have two demos on Beyond Belief episode. Both are made by the laziest of bums, Jaakko Alakopsa. Both are also Nightmare 100%s. The first one, on bbelief5, finishes in 4:15, which is a 13 seconds improvement over Justin Fleck's earlier effort. The second one, made on bbelief6, beats said Justin by 40 seconds to get 3:50. And guess what, that's not the end of demos from Jaakko. He also took a few tries on one of the Prodigy episode maps - p_se_3b. He again did a Nightmare 100%, seems like it became one of his favourite categories. The time is 1:25, 3 seconds faster than Basil de Vries.
Now, back to custom level demos. Last one by NahkahiiR for this update - chain3 Nightmare Run now. Jaakko gets his lazy ass to the exit in 0:53 seconds, beating his own record by 10 seconds, and making this record suck less than earlier :).
Damian Kulot has made another demo. This time it's a dm5sp Nightmare 100%, finished in 1:04. This records beats Weixing Ye's achievement by just a minimal second required, the demo is still pretty nice though.
percept Easy Run got a treatment from the creator of the earlier record himself - Paul Davies delivered this 1:27 to the demo inbox, cursing on his connection a few times while he was sending. The demo is an improvement of 5 seconds.
Laurent Mertens seems to be back to Quake speedrunning, as evident by the number of demos he sent in the last time. He has beaten two records on the dreaded and feared warehaus. Nightmare Run by Jim Leonard was beaten by 10 seconds, meaning 1:11 is the new record. Nightmare 100% is an improvement over Jim again, this time full 22 seconds chopped off. 1:50 is the new time. I hope Laurent will keep the constant demo stream up :)
Finally, a bunch of coops by the usual American cooping team - Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski.
Sunday, 1st July by dex & NahkahiiR
You ask, we deliver. Well, sometimes. - 01:08
First things first: new maps. Quite a lot this time. In fact, we are adding a whole new episode for you to waste your time on. The episode is digs01 episode by Artyom 'Digs' Glazkov. In it, we give you 7 new maps, and of course there's a marathon category too.
BUT...adding so many maps can't go without some additional bonuses. And so, we are proud to present you a project we've made for fun. The project, named Digs01 Done Staff, is an Easy runthrough through the whole episode in 2:15. It's not the normal project you see on QDQ, though. The project's idea was to show off every of the current staff members running style and techniques. As such, it's far from being optimised. But, who cares when you can see the variety of techniques SDA staff uses? The project is included in the episode .zip, and it plays automatically. You can of course delete pak1.pak to not have it play every time, but who would do that when you can please your eyes with our demos? :)
The information of the new contest leaked two days ago on #qdq. You knew what to wait for so here it is in all the glory: fifth round of the third SDA championship - Can you dig it?
Easy Run and Easy 100% demos should be in our inbox no later than Midnight CET, Sunday July 15th 2007.
Everyone who participates will be rewarded points to get a position in The Third SDA Championship ladder! Thus; MAKE DEMOS!
Monday, 25th June by NahkahiiR
A mushroom per day keeps the doctor away - 16:20
Okay, people seem to have sent some new demos. While downloading this pack of demos I will take these mushrooms. I hope 50 is enough this time. Damn they taste as bad as always but at least the effect is going to be good.
Weird update, no custom demos? Only custom episode demos and 2 marathons among them! I hope they aren't too long and boring. All of Beyond Belief... the name feels promising for the mushroom trip. There is this crazy Finnish dude Jaakko Alakopsa who has made lots of demos lately. Well, let's take a look at his 21 minutes and 39 seconds long Nightmare 100% marathon demo, beating Tim Doherty by 9.5 minutes.
The first map looks ok but I need something to keep myself awake. The mushrooms aren't kicking in yet so I'll take some hits from the bong. 1g of bud should be enough.
*Kevin smokes some weed while the demo is playing*
Oh it's a fifth map already. The ones between must have been boring so it doesn't matter. This bud is very good. Wow, the monsters look bad. How can he move that precisely? He must have planned every jump. ... Muahahaha Chthon is an ugly bastard! Die! Good!
Okay, that was it, not too bad. He recorded one more demo in Beyond Belief *giggle*, bb6 actually. An Easy 100% in 2:19, 4 seconds faster than Justin Fleck. Easy? How could it be? Very annoying one at least, I think. That spike trap is evil. I wouldn't go there, my soft skin would hurt. Thinking about the skin, it's a very interesting part of the human body. How come I haven't thought about it earlier. No wait, something is wrong. What am I talking about? I should be watching demos and not babbling some gibberish. I think mushrooms are starting to have an effect.
Oh man, what an awesome name for the next map pack. Prodigy Marathon! Laurent Mertens went through the Easy Run and beat himself... himself? I can't decide if that is a girl's or boy's name. Well let's say that dude is a kangaroo and forget the gender. Anyway the time is 3:08 and 11 faster than the previous demo. Those bunnies aren't very entertaining but hey, it's a kangaroo and that fits quake very well! Nice rocketjumps too.
That jumping animal then thought the Nightmare Run *shudders* I don't want nightmares! Oh yeah, back to the scene, I'm flipping a lot at the moment. The NR of p_se_1 by Justin Slick, argh, Justin Fleck needed one second improvement: 0:43. Why do you have to shoot those enemies. Give them flowers and they would then be nice for you.
No more single player demos? Hmm, then coops by the insane couple from Florida: Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski. It's a long time since they sent demos... I hope these are some quality demos then. I haven't seen those gnomes hopping around in hip3m3 before. I know they are good at hiding but why they are dancing here at the moment? Get away for a moment, I want to see the Easy 100% through this map now. Looks like it took only 1:13 to beat Jaakko Alakopsa and Aleksander Osipov by 4 seconds. Gremlins look a bit like gnomes... did I just see them? No, can't be. They must be siblings.
Mexx6 looks familiar. Those Finnish hippies recorded some demos on that map a while ago. A while? That's one whole year ago. The time really flies. Actually, I feel like flying too. Why did these guys do an Easy Run, an Easy Flight would have been a lot faster. At least I feel like that way. The time they got is 1:07, 4 seconds faster than those hippies mentioned before.
The scepter of ikspq1 Easy 100% changed its owners. Looks like the other American team lost by one second. Oh yeah, they were Justin Slick and Evan Wagner. Did I remember that name right? Maybe not. Well it doesn't matter. The time these Floridians got is ok, a 0:50. Well done.
Heh, I have seen many battles in this map, dm1sp. I thought this was a speedrunning community, not a deathmatch one. Hmm. Where did those monsters appear? I must be imagining them as I'm so high. But who are these players? I can't see their names. Maybe those outfits are just new skins. Okay, that must be it. Let's pretend it's a speedrun now. I believe they are doing an Easy 100% as they are killing all these other guys. Hmm, 0:25? The match ended that quickly? Stupid settings, I see. Let's see if they take another short match like this. Oh they just spawned, and other dudes look more aggressive than before. That's right, don't get too cocky and you will face the difficulty of the deathmatch. What the? They exited again. I can't believe it. It looked like Nightmare 100% and the exit time is 0:31. I should really check what I'm doing. Oh, these were speedruns! These mushrooms are good! Well, for the EH2 they beat Robert & Rickard Axelsson by 2 seconds and for the NH2, Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries by 3 seconds.
More deathmatch levels... is this dm5sp? You must be confusing me on purpose! The confusion stirs me and the heat of that process turns my body into a liquid. And then gas! Whoa this feeling is awesome. I can clip through walls! Why don't you do it too, guys? It would be a lot easier. Okay, I will stay in this point and watch your demos from inside my computer. Who needs keyboards. My head feels somewhat clear now. First off they recorded the Easy Run in 0:17, 1 second faster than Jaakko Alakopsa and Basil de Vries. Fools of the year. Then, Easy 100% in 0:24, 3 seconds faster than those fools again. And finally Nightmare Run in 0:19, tablefilling (single player time 0:20). I will the table with coconuts and let's eat them for your victory.
Ah, no more dm maps, they aren't that cool anyway. Coagula has a large void in it. Feels like that's the place where I'm drifting now. There is nothing. There is only me, and that flying fortress, of course. I have a good view from up here. Their co-operation looks very nice which ends up as an Easy 100% in 0:54, beating Pif et Luc de Mestre by 13 seconds. I know that reaching the kingdom of light requires some co-operation with other people. You guys are doing a good job. With you I can become a divine being.
Looks like there are still two demos unwatched. The first one of them is done on dazsp1. The design is brilliant, it reminds me of the last life I had on Earth when I was a fish. Anyway, it took only 1:26 to beat Jaakko Alakopsa and Paul Davies by 13 seconds.
There is this one last demo on trincasp2 before I can fly to the heaven to meet my ancestors. The map is an evil place, but it doesn't bother me as I'm close to the enlightenment. It must take only the duration of this demo to get into that state. Their wonderful co-operation ends here in 1:05, 10 seconds faster than Michael Hudson and Paul Davies. God bless mushrooms... no wait, there is something wrong in that statement. The God knows the truth and because I'm enlightened now, I must be the God! I bless mushrooms!
And now Kevin has done his job and enters the trip without restrictions of quake.
Wednesday, 13th June by dex
Back to the front - 00:41
After the last set of outstanding wins against the hordes of evil Black Goat of the Woods, we thought the realms of Quake will be cleansed off of Shub's minions as the march of the True Warriors continued to take key battlefields. Then, all contact with even the most heroic fighters has ceased. We could only speculate whether the Thousand Young of the evillest of creatures - the infamous Shub-Niggurath - have managed to kill them, or whether they were faced against terrible tortures. It seemed as if the war was lost, with monsters quickly retaking every part of the known realm.
Then, after all hope of survival was lost, one lone warrior decided to come out of his long hiding from Shub's worshippers and minions on the Battlefield of avatar. The man that has challenged the things that should not be was no other than Jaakko Alakopsa. We had doubts the man was alive. But he, thanks to his cunning courage, has decided to break through evil hordes' lines. First, he fleed to a better position from the place he hid himself. Fortunately for him, the monsters at the place were not elite troops, and this RUN from them was unexpectedly EASY - he accomplished it in 4:55, beating even what the legendary hero Richard Skidmore managed by 4 seconds. After getting a better overview of the situation, and confirming neither the Black Goat nor one of the Thousand of it's children was at place, he had the guts to go fighting monsters at the place again. He killed every one of them, an incredible thing to do, in a bad battle that took 5:18. He has done it as quickly as he could, knowing surprise would be one of his major strengths, he has done it 19 seconds faster than Nolan Pflug battles ago. He then started devising an ingenious plan to break back to HeadQuarters. His preparations were interrupted by elite troops of Shub-Niggurath. I'll admit, we were sure we have lost one of out best troops. We had little hope even he would have managed such strong armies. The NIGHTMARE he had to endure was one that would kill many great men. But he didn't give up - in fact, he first crushed the forces of enemy to one last monster. The battle was long and fierce, but after 5:37, the battlefield was clean again. Again, he has fought this battle faster than Nolan, this time 44 seconds faster. We were astonished by his bravery. Then, the elite troops came back to kill him again. Jaakko, wounded and tired after the earlier battles, had little choice but to flee. He took down as many foul creatures as he could on the way out. After 5:07, he was in a position to try to get to the HQ. The performance again astonished Nolan, who didn't think his scenario of escape was to be improved by 20 seconds.
Nahk has found himself in front of a big army residing on fmb8. The army had to be eradicated to ensure easy way out, Jaakko thought. And he fought on the old Nightmare 100% battlefield, and has killed the monsters in 7:41, which beaten the veteran Basil de Vries by 52 seconds. Jaakko then had to rest for a while. After he recovered from his wounds, he found out that monsters from hideous Shub-Niggurath were teleported to fight him. There weren't as many, and this time it was EASY to kill 'em all in 4:32, 17 seconds faster than what Basil has struggled for here. NahkahiiR has moved on, and to be faster, he has disposed of the weapons he had.
He quickly regretted his decision. Seeing a lone hhouse in his path, he thought he was going to find a safe haven for a while. When he tried to break into it, he discovered it was filled with monsters. He fought that Nightmare fully, killing every single monster in a place I, Karol Urbanski, have myself fought for. Showing outstanding skill in handling evil's minions, he got them all in 4:12, 69 seconds faster than what I thought would be enough.
nesp16 was another place he had to cross on the way to us. And he has killed all monsters on two parts of this battlefield: first the Easy 100% part in 3:25, beating Marlo Galinski's achievement by 2 seconds. Then the Nightmare 100% was the next one, done in 5:12. Justin Fleck was amazed by this battle going faster by 8 seconds.
Wounded Jaakko has managed to get the last ounces of strength out of himself on sm82. Thinking he was to die on this day, he has struggled to beat the most elite troops of Shub. He first has done a fast reconnassaince of enemy troops - he RAN on the NIGHTMARE battlefield in 5:53, beating his earlier record by 85 seconds. He took many enemies with him. But he was to take even more - all of them. It lasted 7:49 against the same elite troops, and he has managed to destroy his earlier win by 127 seconds. That was the last test for him. He was heavily wounded and in need for an immediate med evac.
We had little doubt what to do. We've sent a few troops that were still in a state in which they could fight to recover Jaakko alive from the battlefield. One of them was the supposedly retired Thomas Bergendorff, who was to get to Jaakko from the east. He has managed to get through carnage highest ranked enemies, even crushing them all, in 1:45. That was better than the fresh Justin Fleck's victory by 2 seconds. Unfortunately, he was stopped there.
The other troops we have sent from the west. Knowing two people had bigger chances to be fast than one, we have sent Flavio Quadros and Andre Castro together. They have fought incredibely well, managing to cross the first part of their path to Jaakko in 0:10. The battlefield was that of runthis 2-Player Easy 100%, this is one of the new victories against evil forces. The one person battle here we remember has taken 0:12.
Flavio then decided to move by himself, through the battlefields of damaul3b Nightmare, RUNNING it in 0:24 to get Jaakko out fast. He has beaten the old time by Thomas Bergendorff by 3 seconds. Then, very very hard fights against the monsters had to be done. I wouldn't be surprised if he was to lose to the NIGHTMARES on two next fields. First, he shattered the forces of Shub-Niggurath on elin in mere 0:23, which was faster than Basil's battle by 1 second. The last killing took place on the evspq1 Nightmare 100% fields. Flavio knew he had to be fast, and he was. He got 1:47, which was faster than by the legendary Thomas Stubgaard's battle by as much as 3 seconds. Thanks to Flavio's outstanding performances, NahkahiiR was saved from his death.
The fight is not over yet! We need to reinforce our positions and strike swiftly - the more battles YOU win, the closer we all are to our goal! So, fight for the future of mankind, warriors...
Friday, May 25th by NahkahiiR
True warriors of the known space - 20:58
The darkness falls over the realms of quake, once again EVIL Shub-Niggurath has gathered her armies and filled all nooks, all corners and everything imaginable with the most terrible monsters that man can ever think about. What is the fate of our beloved planet which always has to welcome these ugly and deadly changelings and can't do anything about it. Fortunately, even when the land is covered by monsters, there are still true warriors who oppose the powers of death. Their hunger for saving all innocent from the fangs of Shub-Niggurath, is known throughout the galaxy.
These warriors can't be fooled, they are starting to get the hang of what's going on and monsters won't stand a chance. The first of these heroes, Arturo Garcia Lasca conquered the Nightmare 100% of Castle of the Damned 2 seconds faster than Thomas Stubgaard, getting a slick 1:03. Once again the outpost of Shub-Niggurath is free from her control and the mankind can live in peace. But the war goes on...
Another strategious victory over the evil army took place in the Palace of Hate. Having lost all his comrades, Karol Urbanski fought alone and cleared the Easy 100% in 1:51, 2 seconds faster than himself. Good work. He also saw that trincasp2 was not fully mastered and recorded an Easy Run in 1:19, 1 second faster than Adam Lewandowski. But that didn't stand long. His only standing record in this place remained as Easy 100% in 2:28, 5 seconds faster than Justin Fleck.
Adam Lewandowski from the wonderland of Am3rica decided to help in the endless fight against evil and beat Karol by 1 second to get 1:18. The forgotten tomb is now completed and new exciting monster slaying adventures are waiting for this skilled man.
The human army has one trump card in their pockets, even the monsters fear Justin Fleck whose amusing use of firepower clears everything from its path. His first territorial conquest happened in carnage where gibs fly at the speed of sound. But faster than that is the Flying Fleck, his Nightmare 100% took 1:47, 1 second improvement over Thomas Bergendorff.
Still keeping his brutal pace, the next unfortunate area was colony where he recorded both Easy and Nightmare 100%, 1:18 and 1:34, beating lolfu again by 4 and 6 seconds. Respect.
The same man brought light to the darkness. He took a monster hit from the bong and keeping that state of mind, knocked everything down with a tremendously raw quad attack in 1:49, 8 seconds faster than the Swede mentioned above.
Without his trusted help for the mankind, the kingdom of grc4beta would still be infected with monsterous activity. As my presence there wasn't enough, he beat my Easy and Nightmare 100% records by 3 and 21 seconds, getting sweet 1:56 and 2:23. What would the planet be without him?
The last rock in his shoe, trincasp2 was quickly shaken off as he first beat Karol's old Easy 100% achievement by 16 seconds to get 2:33, which was beaten a bit later. That didn't make him too sad, when he beat Karol again in Nightmare 100%. He dropped the iron weight off his foot, and with that extra speed he chopped 80 seconds off from Karol's time. The new time stands at 5:16. No mercy for the armies of the darkness when this man is loose!
As the last lonely leg of warriors of the light, I joined the massacre of evil forces facing Shub-Niggurath's direct sub-ordinate Chthon on Nightmare 100% through dam100. With my trusty rocket launcher, the time fell down to 1:59, beating Richard Skidmore by 58 seconds.
The war on darkness cannot be won only by loners. Teamwork is the key in this great battle. The efforts of Evan Wagner and Justin Fleck were almost desperate on mexx9a, but they didn't stop trying. The Nightmare Run in 0:52 (tablefiller, single warrior time 1:44) and Nightmare 100% in 2:47 (tablefiller, single warrior time 3:58) showed the world that they aren't afraid and bravely defended Earth from falling into the hands of Shub-Niggurath.
Although our strong army is marching from a victory to another, the fight is not over yet. Lots of blood will flow, pain and damage is taken. But the strong will of ours, is going to end it someday and the mankind will be free of Shub-Niggurath's evil actions. Let's do it together!
Friday, May 18th by dex
Some title should probably go here - 20:20
We've got flooded with quite a bit of demos in the last few days. Sadly, neither of the speedrunners decided to make a demo on one of the original Quake maps. To add a few episode demos to the mighty demo collection hosted on SDA, Mathias Thore has been running terra maps. First, he took down a marathon demo that was already pretty good, an Easy Run of the whole episode in 2:06. That one beats Jonathan's earlier mara by 6 seconds. A nice show of fast running. After that, the nice time he achieved on terra2 has made him try the demo from scratch. The result is a 36 second demo, beating Anders Nordensten by a mere second, but a valuable one at that.
Justin Fleck is continuing his demo beating crusade. This time he killed a 'few' monsters on aard100. 'Few' as in 'quad action on a highly populated map'. The Easy 100% by Jaakko was improved to 3:40, 39 second faster. The skill went up after that, and Nightmare 100% by Richard Skidmore took a big blow. This 4:52 improved the earlier demo by 47 seconds. But it wasn't enough to satisfy Justin's hunger for blood and gibs, and so the slaughtering continued till the time fell to 4:34 for a total of 65 second of improvement.
Our very own 'Finnish Demo Machine', called Jaakko Alakopsa by some, has retaken the Easy 100% on dam100. Richard's nice demo was replaced by a lovely 1:05, a whopping 15 seconds faster. Also, Jaakko has made....hmm. Okay, maybe he isn't that much of a demo machine then :). That's all from him for today's update, shame on him.
Maybe the beating his darkfst demo took will make him work on demos again. His TO was replaced completely by one player's demos: Joshua Anthony! Easy run is 2:30, Easy 100% went down to 3:15, Nightmare Run was destroyed by a 2:29, and finally, a TO was claimed by a Nightmare 100% in 3:17. Improvements are 6 seconds, 4 seconds, 11 seconds and 2 seconds respectively. Good work Joshua.
Someone finally noticed my trincasp2 ER sucked. Adam Lewandowski was 2 seconds faster than me (1:20), however the low decimal and a few small bumps leave room for another improvement. Still, it's better than it was :).
And now, at the end, a bunch of coops by, you guessed it, Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski. You guys keep making those demos with a speed closely resembling a machine gun. I personally recommend the dwell demos.
Monday, May 14th by dex & NahkahiiR
An amazingly and undoubtedly interesting title - 21:43
A little variety never hurt, and so here comes another coop update. Time to get moving with the essence of updates: DEMOS!
Wednesday, May 9th by NahkahiiR
Revolver isn't enough - 13:42
Mathias Thore recorded the only sp demo on old maps, 0:14 on czg's lovely terra4. I love the monster co-operation in this demo, the scrag willingly lent its power for Mathias but unfortunately got nothing in return. It is an OPTIMAL demo. Congrats, Mathias!
The fellow who started the rumble on the new maps, is Karol Urbanski, who released his fangs from id demos to make funny demos on digs02. First there was a Nightmare Run hole, and an instant later dex filled it with a nice 0:23. The record harvester moved on to 100% demos, recording a 1:16 on easy and a 1:20 on nightmare, beating Justin Fleck by 7 and 3 seconds. Next time I would like to see intermission kills too. Quad + sng + scrags = yay.
My part comes next. I really liked the feeling of digs03, which made me record three tablefillers there, Easy 100% in 4:26, Nightmare Run in 1:02 and finally Nightmare 100% in 4:29. Whoops, I got another Total Ownage.
When Paul Davies defeated my sm28 Easy Run, I went on to fool around with noclip to see if there were another ways to complete the map. By skipping the three buttons, I got a nice 1:40. Gonna fight back, Lag? Again, the joy of playing quake turned out in the shape of another two tablefillers, Easy 100% in 4:20 and Nightmare 100% in 4:22. What's wrong with you people? You are letting me to have too many records.
The only sp demos on speedmaps were done by Tom Nguyen who improved his sm51_czg Easy Run by 1 second to get a 0:17, cool bananas. The last hole on this map, Nightmare Run got filled in 18 seconds! E1m3 grenadejumping does not seem to be a problem to this man.
You would have never expected the comeback of the French coop clan, Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre. After over a year's pause, they recorded 6 demos. I don't know if they got angry about the certain Americans who have been crushing their demos, but here they are again. There is a lot of work for anyone, SDA has hundreds of 2-player coop holes.
Finally, demos by Adam Lewandowski and Jason Hochreiter, known as Team Florida. They are desperately trying to make SDA run out of bullets. Revolver isn't enough, we need a gatling gun like M134. But their 22 demos in the bullet style:
There are still 3 sp holes left... who will get them?
Sunday, May 6th by dex
WTF DEMOS - 22:27
Saturday, May 5th by NahkahiiR
Sustained fire on a conveyor belt - 01:00
You must have fun with them, I demand it.
Thursday, May 3rd by NahkahiiR
CONTEST RESULTS!!!111!! - 13:42
Once again, big thanks to all people who sent demos. Now go and view the current standings of The Third SDA Championship ladder!